Radiation Therapy for Gynecologic Cancers

Types of Radiation Therapy

There are two types of radiation therapy.

• External beam radiation therapy delivers treatment from a machine outside your body.
• Internal radiation therapy or brachytherapy delivers treatment using radioactive sources placed into the vagina, uterus and/or surrounding tissues to kill the cancer cells. Other names for this are brachytherapy, interstitial implants and intracavitary radiotherapy.